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On the other hand, as a Lisp is the True Way type, I believe there are very good reasons to learn a Lisp early in your study of programming. While Scheme has a
by hga 12y ago
On the other hand, as a Lisp is the True Way type, I believe there are very good reasons to learn a Lisp early in your study of programming. While Scheme has a lot going for it in this domain, Clojure is not bad at all, and it happens to have a lot of good solutions for concurrent programming.
- jbooth 12y agoEveryone should learn a Lisp early in their career. Anyone who actually cares about performance will learn quickly that auto-parallelizing or 'parallel collections/streams' is a joke, with Amdahl's law being the punchline.
- 616c 12y agoDon't worry, done and done. I play with Common Lisp on my machine, and I definitely dream of writing a web app in Clojure and Clojurescript once I finish some Java coursework. Things will slow down and I will understand the underlying Java/JVMisms as well as bonus. (Taking Java for school reqs, not for this reason of course, but it would be nice.)